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        <B>Changing NetBeans look</B>
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    <font size="+1" color="#0000A0">NetBeans 4.0 or higher</font>
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    To change the look of NetBeans you have to edit the netbeans.conf file. You can find this file in
    the XXX/netbeans/etc folder where XXX stands for the relative path of your NetBeans installation.
    Open this file in a text editor and change the following line
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    <pre><code><b>netbeans_default_options="-J-Xms32m -J-Xmx128m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=96m -J-Xverify:none"</b></code></pre>
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    <pre><code><b>netbeans_default_options="-J-Xms32m -J-Xmx128m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=96m -J-Xverify:none -laf com.jtattoo.plaf.smart.SmartLookAndFeel"</b></code></pre>
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    Copy the JTattoo.jar file into the XXX/netbeans/platform5/lib folder.
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    <font size="+1" color="#0000A0">NetBeans before 4.0</font>
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    To change the look of NetBeans you have to edit the ide.cfg file. You can find this file in
    the XXX/netbeans/bin folder where XXX stands for the relative path of your NetBeans installation.
    Open this file in a text editor and change respectively insert the following line
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    <pre><code><b>-ui com.jtattoo.plaf.aluminium.AluminiumLookAndFeel</b></code></pre>
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    Copy the JTattoo.jar file into the XXX/netbeans/lib folder.
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    <b>Next time you start NetBeans you will be suprised.</b>
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